Having spent the weekend in DC, let me assure you that no matter how much you think you hate what he’s done to our capital, you should hate it more. Giant banners of his mugshot, tacky gold paint on the statues, a fucking UFC cage on the White House lawn and armed troops everywhere. (spits)

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

"I think this is exactly what was described as a war crime," Woolford said one caller told him.

Read this whole piece.

TBH I think this means aggressively purging the officer corps of anyone who Hesgeth promoted and any sympathizers.

So if you want people to specialize in, say, the kinds of materials required for hypersonic weapons to operated effectively, you're paying for either a civil scientist or a contract. If you want professors with detailed expertise, they are not cheap.

What's more common are people required for the DoD to function. My favorite example is elementary school teachers. In a literal sense, they don't do the DoD mission. Ms. Keane is not kitting out an F-35. However, the DoD is supposed to be a long-term commitment, which means providing for families.

In all seriousness: religious freedom only works when it is a common project of defending everyone's freedom of worship and belief. It doesn't work as an individual project of asserting your own freedom to be religious how you like. Senator Lee is learning a hard lesson here. Hope he remembers it.

What an odd thing to say

they were pretending to want efficiency and cost savings, so he pretended to believe the goal was efficiency and cost savings, and produced plans for efficiency and cost savings this forced them to admit, out loud and in front of witnesses, that their real objective was to ruin people's lives

he probably THOUGHT "oh my god fuck you guys this is outrageously evil" but this is a lifelong public servant who understands a fundamental strategy for interfering with an evil plan: pretend you think they really want what they are pretending to want, and offer to help them achieve it

also important, if you are someone in a position to implement "become the node of friction" notice how the whistleblower did not say "oh my god fuck you guys this is outrageously evil" he said "you are here for efficiency? I have some other ideas for efficiencies that could produce cost savings"

this example is an EXCELLENT insight into two things: 1. why the opinion "we should run government like a business" should be treated similarly to the opinion "we should kill and eat more human infants" 2. how even a single node of friction in a system can halt a more powerful person's evil plan

This right here. I'm a pinko anarcho-liberal treehugger type (or whatever stereotype those words evoke for you) but I have loved working for the Department of Defense. It's an incredible organization, made up of every kind of person doing every conceivable job, a mini-version of America. Used to be.

Because whatever problems I may have with our military-industrial complex, I was touched by how the actual human beings reflect what's great about America, which is diverse people coming together for a common cause. Shame on Hegseth for trying to erase that.

This is beyond offensive.🤬How will we ever be able to apologize enough to our allies & the world in general for allowing this? Meanwhile, the rest of us will take this day to remember the brave souls who faced relentless fire on those deadly beaches to defeat fascism and Hitler’s monstrous vision.

what do you call mass detainment camps that kill the people who stay in them

Elon about to run off with everyone's 401k in the most obvious pump and dump of all time like a heel cashing in his Money in the Bank briefcase.

I think a lot of people decided early on that supporting Graham Platner was cool and not liking him was cringe. So now whenever new bad behavior of his gets exposed, people are going to reframe that bad behavior as cool and people arguing against it as cringe. Because everyone is, of course, 12

Good thread. I just keep remembering the description of the Roberts Court agenda as “presidentialization and judicialization” — that is, the Court is grabbing power for the president and courts, at the expense of Congress and agencies. To our detriment.

One of the very first things that were gutted/interrupted by this admin was screw worm management but, in particular, the cooperative component with the Mexican government and agribusiness, who were desperate for maximum collaboration/management.

Jail and prison are incredibly unsafe. There is no safe jail. The important thing to keep in mind when reading these stories is that the answer is always to let people be free (not to hire more doctors). apnews.com/article/ice-...

the AI rollout has easily the worst messaging of any technology I’ve ever seen it’s not even so much the underlying tech - a lot of people like the chatbots - but the continued promises that it’s going to ruin your life and there’s nothing you can do about it well - you can fight data centers

legitimately cannot understand anyone saying "where did the apocalypse we were told was coming from the oil issues go" gas is up 25%. it will filter to the price of everything, proportionate to how much of that cost is energy. sorry modern apocalypses are boring and slow and creeping

The upside of this is that it will make it extremely hard for them to avoid total unmitigated electoral catastrophe. It also, unfortunately, means they're very unlikely to accept the results of *this* election. We should expect a desperate, rushed autogolpe attempt vs the incoming Congress.

Great American State Fair officially downgraded to Fair American State Poor

especially re: 2, one must ask, in what way is this court majority actually opposed to Plessy v. Ferguson?

Parading their crimes before everyone as you remove them would be much more “legitimizing” than packing the court

pack the court or lose the republic

pretty sure any half awake prosecutor could charge and convict clarence thomas for the bribes everyone is aware he's been taking. and im pretty sure you could nail a couple others two. why bother packing the court. you're allowed to do it now. bonus points when they've actually done crimes

To prove racial gerrymandering, a plaintiff has to draw race-blind districts that are just as favorable to Republicans. But that's impossible to do because Republicans uniformly select racists as their candidates and Black voters won't vote for racists. So racial gerrymandering is always allowed.

There’s no way you can predict the next word in this sentence.

It’s not generally reported on, but in many cases, when ICE snatches parents, this leaves the children in the house alone, with no idea why, hiding and waiting until the food runs out, at which point the oldest goes and knocks on neighbors doors to ask why their mommy and daddy are gone.

Scientists: We desperately need long, unbroken records of North Atlantic currents to see how close we are to a #climate tipping point. US government: sending ships to rip 900 deep-sea sensors out of the water. Congress voted twice to keep them funded. They're being pulled anyway.

it is in absolutely everybody’s best interests to develop some hobbies aside from Phone

Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

the framing about 401ks is a little weird but the actual story is more interesting: Musk is somehow getting the not-yet IPO’ed SpaceX stock forced into the indexes so that if you hold an index fund, you hold SpaceX, which would be fine if SpaceX was qualified for inclusion, but it does not.

Literally the other day I was happily doing one of my elaborate puzzles, then paused and sorta sighed like, why do people do spend their time doing bad things when they could spend their time doing puzzles

Air conditioning is a proven violence prevention measure; its absence in our jails and prisons isn't just inhumane, it's costly. (Also, and I will beat this drum until I die, schools.)

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Coaching needs to be part of the onboarding package when you first get elected, if not when you first file to run bsky.app/profile/magn...

A 51-49 Dem Senate is one in which, for example, many Trump nominees never even make it out of committee, making it irrelevant which way Fetterman or Platner or whomever would vote on the floor.

Not for nothing but freedom of navigation has been a core US foreign policy objective for 200+ years and preserving the Arabian Gulf from domination has been one for just a hair under 50. When I say things like “calamity” or “inexcusable defeat”, I am not being partisan or exaggerating.

Democrats need to prepare themselves for unprecedented and previously unimaginable levels of records destruction. Vought will ensure paper trails are wiped clean, with pardons dangled for those doing it. Or they'll say Grok did it and you can't charge an AI with the crimes.

we cannot be a nation until the whole hell of the deportation machine, the family separation machine, the foul moloch that sustains Stephen Miller and grinds children into dust, until all of that is dismantled and the work of reparation begins www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.

Elon Musk and MAGA now see "empathy" as the great obstacle to the fascist, militantly pro-hierarchy, anti-egalitarian future they hope for, and this "idea" now has a book purportedly devoted to explaining it. Good takedown of it here from @mattpolprof.bsky.social: jacobin.com/2026/05/saad...

So much of the pandemic was us finding out life actually could be easier and better and more accessible, and then watching them peel every scrap of that back out of our hands & lives, often for incoherent reasons. (return to office!)

“Yes, look, they gave me a form and I filled it out—here’s my name, look—and there I made it very clear that I wanted to bring my little girl,” said one mom who was deported without her daughter. "But they didn’t listen to me … they didn’t care.”